Staff Profile

Career Summary

Biography

Caroline qualified as an occupational therapist in London, England in 1981. After many years as a practitioner and manager, Caroline completed an honours degree in Health Studies (Occupational Therapy) in the UK. Moving to Ireland in 2001, Caroline continued as a community therapist and a manager, completing a Masters (1st class) in rehabilitation studies from University College Dublin. Caroline moved to Australia in 2009 as a lecturer in Occupational Therapy at the University of Newcastle. Caroline completed her post graduate certificate in tertiary education and registered for her PhD in 2011. The title of her PhD is 'The 21st century learner in occupational therapy: Developing competence in practice education. Caroline has published on practice education and clinical reasoning.

Graduate Certificate Practice of Tertiary Teaching, University of Newcastle, 11/12/2009

Research

Research keywords

Competence

Generation Y

Practice education

Practice reasoning

Rehabilitation

Stroke

Research expertise

Caroline is a PhD candidate with the University of Newcastle Australia. The title of her reserach is xxxx. Caroline has also supervised honours students on practice education for 6 health professions

Languages

English

Fields of Research

Code

Description

Percentage

110321

Rehabilitation And Therapy (Excl. Physiotherapy)

40

110399

Clinical Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified

30

119999

Medical And Health Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified

30

Collaboration

Primary research collaborations are within the School of Health Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Caroline has three PhD supervisors from Occupational Therapy, Radiation Therapy and Occupational Health and Safety.

Interdisciplinary collaboration includes delivering an annual suite of courses for practice educators from 6 health disciplines. Interdisciplinary research in practice education has also been completed (Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Nutrition and Dietetics, Medical Radiation Sciences).

Caroline also has collaborated with A/Professor Natasha Lannin and Professor Anne Cusick( University of Wollongong) on stroke rehabilitation research.

Caroline is involved in inter-university research between University of Newcastle and University of South Australia.

Caroline is part of a Project Leadership Team, delivering on the creation of a student website. This is funded by an Office of Learning and Teaching Grant. Collaborations exist between the Project Leadership Team and four other universities (James Cook University, University of Western Sydney, Charles Sturt University and La Trobe University). The project mentor is Professor David Boud (University of Technology, Sydney).

Administrative

Administrative expertise

From 2009- 2011 Caroline co-ordinated the following courses:

With the new revised occupational therapy program Caroline co-ordinates the following courses

Caroline is chair of the Practice Education Development Group which is made up of the practice education administrator, students, practice educators and occupational therapy managers.

Teaching

Teaching keywords

Assessment

Assistive technology

Community occupational therapy

Competence

Physical disability

Practice education

Rehabilitation

Wheelchairs and seating

Teaching expertise

Caroline teaches second year occupational therapy students, focussing on physcial disability, acute and community care, rehabilitation, health promotion and assistive technology including wheelchairs and seating. Carol prepares leads on practice education in the program.

2011 (2 grants)

Creating student-focussed, web-learning resources to support the development of and provide evidence of occupational therapy students' graduation competencies$214,000Funding Body: Australian Learning and Teaching Council